Improvement in end-gates for vehicles



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JOSEPH HEALD, OE CHORLEY, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN END-GATES FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,91S, dated May 4, 1875; application filed June 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH HEALD, of Chorley, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new Improvement in Door- -Fasteners for ilagoiis; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, end view of a wagon, the door hung from top; Fig. 2, side view ofthe same, showing the bolt down; Figs. 3, 4, 5, G, and 7, inoditications.

In the several figures similar parts are marked by corresponding letters of reference.

Fig. l shows an end door hung from the top by bar f. g is a bar going across such door, each end of which, when closing, is made to press against the rounded lower end ot' the bolt b, force them up, and, when closed, the bolts will fall by their own weight in front of the bar g, thereby securing the door in its place, closed.

In Fig. 3 the door is represented as hung at the'bot-tom, the hinge O extending up, so as to strike the bolt b and force it up, to'again fall after the door is closed, as in rst description, and as illustrated in Fig. 4.

These gures show an inside plate, a, curved It is bolted through the timber to the hingeband e. The

bolt is held in position by a staple, marked d, inside of which such bolt slides up and down freely. eis an inside plate, against which the bolt slides. In Fig.5 the hinge is hooked attop inwardly, and in Fig. 6 the hinge concaved at top end, which forms a reverse hook to Eig. 5, the convex side of which strikes against the top rail z'. In Fig. 7 the door opens to top, without top rail. In such case the hinge-band o has on the side an arm, j, acting on the bolt.

In case the bolt cannot fall to the position required by its own weight, I use a spring or other equivalent for forcing it into its place.

I do not conline myself to the precise details I have described, as many variations may be made without deviating from the principle; but

`What I claim as my invent-ion is- 1. The combination ot' a hingegate of a landcarriage, the bolt b, and the striker on the said gate to actuate the bolt, all substantially as described. A

2. The combination of the door of a landcarriage, the hinge eto form the striker, and the bolt b, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH HE ALD.

Vitnesses:

DAVID DRUMMOND,

5 Prospect Place, Swansea. JAMES DRUMMOND,

5 Prospect Place, Swansea. 

